I DIDN'T KNOW!!! Grandmaster Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) REACTION
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Can't front on Melle Mel ,his verse on The Message is top 5 all time .🔥🔥
It is all subjective but from a lyrical and technical standpoint you can’t compare it to the years 85 and forward. LL killed it and Run DMC when they came! It is more nostalgia that people put Melle Mel there😊
@@zepete5No that rhyme single handily changed rap because of it's content.
@@humanbeing4021agreed. His last verse on the message when he starts “a child is born with no state of mind” changed the game and still holds up to this day.
@@robertmatthews9650 One of the reasons Eminem receives unwarranted hate in my opinion is bec half of his Stans are always trying to rewrite history. They'll make a list of top MC's and everyone on the list will be affiliated with Dre who I am a huge fan of by the way.
@@zepete5It is absolutely not nostalgia that puts that verse there. The problem is that you're only looking at the technical rhyme proficiency and not the cultural impact to people living in the situation AND people who had no idea those situations existed. Bar none, it's the most important verse in hip hop. Nothing else really comes close.
Side note: Prodigy's song "Quiet Storm" (white lines) uses this bass line but it's slowed down
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That’s not Prodigy’s song. That’s Mobb Deep’s song. If it’s anybody song, it’s Havocs because he produced the fuckin beat.
@@massdagodHav Produced it for Prodigy’s HNIC 1 album, but the label pushed Prodigy to release it on the Murda Muzik album as a single
@@Havoc0474Correct and the original Version was on a d j clue mixtape. czcams.com/video/Qxw3xtiqPTY/video.html
Good looking, didn't know. Havoc flipped that nicely🔥🔥🔥🔥
The fact that this was right before crack dropped is eerily prophetic
My OGs in DC, Miami and Harlem have all told me that crack was hitting the streets in limited quantities as early as 1979 but you had to really be out there to run into it. Melle been said he was really out there back then. 😅
@@seanyoung9014 yeah that was when they were “inventing the wheel”. lol. Freebase morphing into that rock! MIA, DC, NY was ground zero! By the time the mid 80s arrived the crack-a-demic was on and poppin! #DontDoIt 😂
Don't forget Melle Mel on Chaka Khan's "I feel for You" Straight classic...💣💣💣💣💣
I feel like his song “Beat Street Breakdown” is a lyrical masterpiece for it’s time period.
Yes!!tgats my favorite song of his..knew it word for word
It's sure is!
He went in on beat street. 💯
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Hey Ahmad, you gotta understand this was the second song to deliver a deep message in rap. The first was, "The Message". ------ Before these songs rap was considered goofy kids music. ----- Then Melle Mel showed it could be much more, much deeper. ----- On the level of soul and rock music.
New York New York is 🔥🔥🔥 too
@@eugenedantzler4485 I completely agree. I'm convinced NY, NY residents go to Vegas for a quiet, relaxing and slow-paced vacation.
Mellys verse in the end of the Beat Street movie
Is certified Supet 🔥 for the 80s!!!
We need more 80's rap reactions! Dope Song 🔥🔥🔥
Coke was such a big part of the culture you had MCs back then putting it in their names… Coke La Rock… Kool Rock Ski, etc. Ski and rock also being names for coke.
Kurtis Blow
MELLY MEL is a triple OOOG, and legend period .. 1 ...
His verse on Beat Street is probably his magnum opus. One of the dopest verses in hip hop history 💪🏽💯
You gotta do "Step Off" by Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five!!! It's loaded with bars that were unheard of at the time, very underrated classic
Yooo Ahmad This Is One Of Hip Hop's Greatest Songs It Was One Of Those Songs That Changed The Game And Guess What My G That Bassline You Hear That's What "Mobb Deep" Sampled For "Quiet Storm" 😁🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love this song and I’m one of the ones who never did any illegal drugs in my life
"The more I see, the more I do..."
That part gets me everytime.
FREEBASE!!!!!
Get Higher, Baby!!!
The sample is from a 1983 song by Liquid Liquid called "Cavern" . It can be heard early in that song. . Mel was definitley a pioneer in the sense that
"White Lines" & "The Message" were possibly the first rap songs that talked about real life serious issues .
The best base line ever.
To be clear it’s a cover not sampled. This was before samplers had enough memory to handle this long a bass line.
@@djdedan good point ! Thanks
Thank you for this reaction
I listened to my parents and uncles playing this when I was growing up but didn't understand the concept
I just know it was the jam
One of my favorite ruckus to break-dance to way back in the day. I remember my crew won free pizza for a year at a contest at a pizza spot to this joint. The memories!
This is a classic Hip-Hop track right here! This is how life was around this era especially in the black neighborhoods etc.. Melle was telling it how it was
Yep yep yep. Times have absolutely changed, but there at the dawn of rap he WAS the one changing them. Straight down to calling out the differences in crack charges vs. coke charges, which are still on the books.
Hey Ahmad, to complete the trilogy of deep message songs from Melle Mel, you've gotta hear, "Beat Street". ----- You should even check out the movie. ------ Its free on CZcams and let's you see what lead to hip hop being born. ----- Similar to the desperate times taking place in Detroit a decade ago.
Classic cut, even Duran Duran covered this song
I was 8 when this dropped..they played the hell out of this song......you have to remember...this is on the heels of the disco era...where everybody was gettin high....then crack came a year later and destroyed us.....this song is more than a classic....it's in it's own class.....KIng..you have to check out MC Lyte..."I cram to understand you"...first rap song addressing her boyfriend on crack....MC Lyte did it first...
It's an anti-drug song that was played in dance clubs. I know it from a punk rock club in 1984, when even the guys with biker jackets with studs, spiked hair, and safety pins through everything would break dance and spin on the concrete floor. The long version is is even better! Melle Mel was an anti-drug, hard-working, be a man type.
We all agree, his response to Em was trash but the problem I have is it never should’ve went down to begin with. You said it, he’s 65 years old, he a analog player in a digital world. Em should’ve took his comments on the chin and everyone would’ve forgotten about it. He dissed Meth but we ain’t see him make diss records now Em’s fanbase is relentlessly showing him disrespect all because people enabled that weak ass diss record he made to push his new artist. Mel deserved more respect that’s all we sayin
Who remembers BET Uncut 😂😂😂
White girlllllllllls, (Suzy, Jen, and Karen)
Going through my miiiiiind, (Sarah, Jesse and Julie, too)
White girlllllllllls, (Judy, Beth, and Sharon)
Help me unwiiiiiiind (The more I see the more I do)
Don't tell Minister Farrakhan (That's right)
He don't want to know what's going on (Ok)
'cause white girllllllllllls, won't go away..
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂that was my shit
I was just talking about this song to my cuz a few days ago asking him if he remembers it 😂
I was fortunate enough to see them back in the day. Jonzun Crew opened for them and then New Edition. Oakland Arena.
LL also sampled this "something like a phenomenon " later in the 90s ..
Didn't sample but used the phrase
The dude in the white suit is Larry Fishburne
Believe it or not, rap used to be positive back in the early years.
There is still positive rap... But the corporations don't really push it.. They wanna dumb down the masses..
I would say that rap didn't really become negative until Cube left NWA and the labels saw how much attention that beef got.
@@seanyoung9014 Look up "Schoolly D", the first Gangsta rapper ever to exist.
@@red_river_radio7927 Come on man. I'm from that era. Don't gotta look anything up. Park Side Killas
"This song is DOPE!" Hahahahaha yes it is! We used to DANCE to this jam at ----- CHURCH dances back in the day (because anti-drug message was A-OK to the church elders!) I heard a similar riff on the store music overhead at a store last night and this song came to mind in an INSTANT. I sang it to the (young) cashier and she was, like, what? And I told her to look this song up on youtube she would love it. She was, like, "I don't knowwwww." So I turned to the (older) cashier and said, "You know "White Lines", right?" And she just grinned and said, "Yep!"
Yeah it is DOPE as heck.
if you slow down the BPM of this song and listen to the drum pattern, you’ll hear where Havoc got the Mobb Deep “Quiet Storm” sample from. ❤
He's not a bad MC, at all. It's just no longer his hay-day!
Ahhhhhhh the 80s cocaine 1983 the year of Scarface
A fight for power, a nuclear shower
A people shout out in the darkest hour
Sights unseen and voices unheard
And finally the bomb gets the last word -Melle Mel
The dance that go's with this song is still popular in bars across America.
Appreciate the reaction King. I was still a little young at this time and never really liked this song, but the beat and many, many lines and references can be attributed to this track.
To answer your question, there are varying definitions of The Golden Age. I consider it to start right around the turn of the decade when someone took the lid off and poured gasoline on the genre. I mentioned it before but I went to a Public Enemy concert in early 92 and Tribe, Black Sheep, Naughty, Leaders of the New School, and a dozen or so acts were ALL P.E.'s open opening acts. Others say late 80s...when Eric B and Rakim were doing their thing and Run DMC were fading out.
It is Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Melle Mell is one of the Furious Five.
Funny you just did QUIET STORM. This is where Havoc got the sample from. Just slowed down
I agree Mel's rep ain't damaged from the Eminem shit. You've GOT to check out "Gold" by Flash & the Furious Five. That was some pure fire back in the day. Still one of my all-time favs from any age of hip hop.
This was my ringtone for years, back when ringtones were popular.
That man flowed his ass off on Beat Street
The Bronx HipHop Legend Grandmaster Melle Mel
React to the movie "Beat Street" 1984. The main character is a rapper. Melle Mel does the voice overs for the music, and then has an appearance at the end. Pivotal material.
& Since we doing Melle Mel this week......U MUST do Chaka Khan "I Feel for U" ( 1st Hip Hop / R&B collaboration...... ) That song also has ( if I aint mistaken.... ) the 1st vocal sample on a commercial Hip Hop record
Rap Fact. Havoc of Mobb Deep sampled the baseline of this song for Quiet Storm.
Holy Shit, I haven't heard this in like 40 years..
This song made me watch LL Cool J - Phenomenon
Funny thing is, this was really pro coke but SugarHill wouldn't put it out until they made it "anti-drug" for airplay.
@KingAhmadTV this what mobb deep used to make the song a quiet storm.
I just realized on one of the breaks they say free base 😂😂😂😂
Don't forget Lawrence "Larry" Fishburne is in the video. White suit guy lol
Melle Mel is the greatest rapper of them all. PERIOD. Mel's Hustlers Convention next?
Listen to the extended version
I think havoc sampled the bass line for his mobb deep track with Lil Kim
Did u notice this where they sample quiet storm from?
I reordered this a day before I reacted to quiet storm but I know now 😂🔥🔥🔥
I first herd this song on a PlayStation game. Thrasher skate and destroy. I was probably in the 5th grade 😂
Enjoing this, Doin‘ my Weekend lines 😂🎉
Got the Original Vinyl press 😊
Nah man, him being in his 60s is no excuse. This man's hate made him choose not to evolve. There's other rappers his age who still nice like Grandmaster Caz because they saw what the following generations were doing with the craft and flow they didn't switch up their flow to match the younger artists, they tweaked it to fit with modern beats and concepts. Melle Mel STILL had major joints tho. Not taking from his career but given his spot had he evolved no one would be clowning him.
czcams.com/video/SGIEVyfarS4/video.html
Watch this before you talk shit about hip hop DJ Kayslay - Rolling 110 Deep [Official Video]
check mel at out 20:44
@@gsmith11172 fair, the bars there are good, I never said anything against what he put out other than that diss track, but his hate for those that came after him is undeniable and documented and it has set him back. Even in that section, he's shitting on rappers that came after him in the bars. I think you proved my point.
Bullshit narrative. You're misrepresenting what he actually said because you're never listened. You're just repeating a narrative. His criticisms were about the direction of hip hop and SOME younger artists as well as how bad things have gotten with the youth. All that shit is true. You can't quote one sentence from that man that conveys what you wrote in your comment section essay
Beat Street Breakdown
World War 3
Step Off
Pump me up
The Mayor
M3 - The New Message
Sun dont shine in the hood
New York, New York
His verse on Quincy Jones Back on the Block
Check out Mighty Casey "White Girls" where he used this sample
Was just rapping about what they saw - freebase was kicking in - a game changer.
Back then it was like that.
Your reaction is hilarious 😂😂😂
Melle Mel- Mama
The song wasn’t going to have the “don’t don’t do it” in the title originally but Melle Mel lost a friend to an OD a few weeks before the song was released and he wanted it to be more clear that the song was anti crack/coke
Hey, I know this song this song is from cocaine Bear
So many artists sampled aspects of this song. Wild! 😵💫
Artist have been talking about drugs on recording since the beginning
This song was fire and it’s been sampled throughout hip hop so many times
Lol what am I watching the 80s were a different time man.
57k! Congrats 💯 keep grinding my guy.
You already know Brodie. Keep grinding too my guy 💯💯💪🏾
Quiet Storm sampled this beat.
Merle Mel- mama
Look they slap the dont do it message on it but it was meant to be a party song and promote the use of it
Please react to the song... Smackin' Rappers by Melle Mel... would be awesome... thank you
Do. "WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR MONEY" - by DIVINE SOUNDS 1984!
🔥🔥ITS TRUTH TO THIS DAY!!
This song was actually made as a pro cocaine song.. but he record company made them change it up to an anti-coke song... but originally they wrote it in favor of coke
I'm an older head, but I never heard this song until some time in the late 2000s. It was after I heard that "White Girls" song that was always on BET Uncut, so I was kinda bugging when I heard "white! liiiines" sung the same as "white! giiiirls" lol. Then I heard "something like a phenomenon" and realized LL Cool J got the hook for his song "Phenomenon" from this track, too.
But this is really what Mel has been complaining about: this song is about demonizing drugs. A lot of rap records had a positive vibe like this until NWA let Jerry Heller turn them to glorifying all the violence and drugs. Then "everyone" followed suit. Quotations bc it wasn't really everyone, and even the ones who did would throw in tracks about it leading to problems and downfalls. It's unfortunate Mel ignored all the tracks that were warnings and critical of violence, poverty, drugs, etc. He basically turned into one of the people that complain about rap even though they don't listen to it.
This was from the 1980s, the country was overrun with cocaine!!
Since you wanna go old school..... May I suggest the song New York New York by Grandmaster Flash.
In honor of the Montgomery AL Brawl…u should react to Montgomery AL rap group Dirty Boyz’ song Hit Da Floe
He didn't flip it.. the industry did .
Peruvian Cok immortal technique 🔥🔥🔥
You didn’t disrespect melle mel. You showed the man respect and said he’s a legend but you was right about the track. It was trash. They think because he’s a legend we supposed to let that slide. Nah bruh that diss was horrible.
You gotta react to Goodie Mob album. Greatest album from the South of all time from the 90s trust me
You have to understand, back then, if you wasn't in the game you didn't know what it was!
Message
nice pick
Funny thing was, the whole band was wired on blow when they made this.
Ahmad! Do these joints:
LL Cool J "I Need A Beat"
Fearless Four "Rockin It"
Run DMC "Together Forever"
All those joints are fire and all from 1983-1985 era. Dont do no Kurtis Blow, please lol.
BEAT STREET
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 IT HPPN BRO 😂😂😂 AYE YOOOO
"Freebase!" Richard Pryor did that...It didn't end well 🔥😬
This is technically an anti-drug song, but it was a lot of people doing coke to this lol
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Now u gotta do the mighty Casey version. White girls! Lol I promise you’ll be entertained
THIS SONG WAS SAMPLE BY MOBB DEEP ALSO R&B GROUP 112.
READ YOUR C.D. BOOK SLEEVE
VIRGIN ISLANDS PEACE ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
Nice shirt